Somerville’s Greentown Labs, which bills itself as the country’s largest incubator for cleantech startups, is partnering with a like-minded incubator from New York University to build a network of East Coast startups dedicated to sustainable technology.More →

Demiurge Technologies AG, a Swiss startup that works on artificial intelligence, says it’s interested in acquiring Boston Dynamics, the Waltham robot maker put on the auction block last week by Alphabet Inc., parent company of Google.More →

Ever since it launched in 2011, the Cambridge-based marketing startup ThriveHive has publicized itself as the HubSpot for small businesses. On Tuesday, when Propel Business Solutions of Quincy announced it was acquiring ThriveHive for $11.8 million, its chief executive threw down a good-natured challenge to the bigger marketing rival.More →

Balter has raised $1.5 million in seed investment for Mylestoned, from Founder Collective, Boston Seed Capital, Converge, and angel investors. He said there are seven people already working on the company, which hopes to create a more modern way to remember the departed.More →

SAN FRANCISCO — Virtual reality ruled the week at the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC), turning the 26,000-person gathering into a tour de force of the much-hyped technology.

With the first virtual reality (VR) headsets reaching consumers — and gamers in particular — at the end of this month, enthusiasm for the immersive entertainment platform was everywhere from the expo show floor and demo booths to the developer sessions and private parties.More →

The shutdown comes about three months after Next Step Living announced it was replacing founding CEO Geoff Chapin with the company’s finance chief, Chris Catalano, who was charged with leading the company into new markets and continued growth.More →

The Cambridge company is demonstrating at the big Game Developers Conference just how its technology can reduce much of the friction – such as poor Web performance – that can effect a player’s experience in a big way.More →

If you’ve assumed that biotech companies cluster in Cambridge to be close to Harvard and MIT, that’s only part of the story — other cities were far less welcomin. When a Harvard spin-out, Genetics Institute, tried to set up an office in Somerville in 1981, a public hearing aired concerns about rats and roaches carrying newly invented organisms out of the labs and into a nearby supermarket.More →

The “Prof” and Pavlov are animated characters in a digital sleep training program called Sleepio, which claims to teach its users how to sleep better. In December, it became the latest addition to the benefits package for staff at the BMC.More →

The new Technology and Cyberlaw Clinic will help students tackle regulatory and legal hurdles that might trip up their cutting-edge research projects — something that MIT students in particular have run into before.More →